🏀 KuBuckets Archive

Good evening or morning fellow Jayhawks! I'm back and settling in to my new home in the wonderful state of Vermont. Seriously, its really beautiful here. I just wanted to leave a message and say hello. We are in the dog days of summer still and the next basketball season is a couple months away still but I am just as excited as ever to see our guys play! Not being a Kansan will mean getting espn full court so I can see all the games and, I wont be going to AFH anytime soon. Bummer. But there is always a chance I can catch a live KU game at an early season or late season tournament. MSG is mere hours away from me by train or car!
Im thinking of checking out some University of Vermont games when the season starts too but I know it wont be the same. No program can compare to KU. Not even Duke or UNC, both of which I respect a great deal. Yah, I said it. I respect Coach K and Coach Williams. But I digress. I'm happy to be back in here and able to converse with everyone here about the best game ever.

ps. Dig the new format!!!

@Lulufulu85

luuuuuuuuu welcome back!

Enjoy the maple syrup and the Ben & Jerrys! I spent a couple years in Burlington between my undergrad and grad degrees in Lawrence.

After grad school, I moved to Boulder. Now I live in the Bay Area...

Burlington, Berkeley and Boulder all are beautiful and quintessential college towns with just a few more hairy armpits than the average campus.

Welcome back. It would be interesting to know where all of us live on this site. SF, Burlington, the height of beauty in our country! I live in the depths of ugly in Baton Rouge!

@wissoxfan83 Well your city was named after a red stick... I tried to google a picture of it, maybe it was a pretty red stick, but nothing came up...

@bskeet hey - what's with all the "B" towns? Are you secretly a fan of Butler, Bradley and Bucknell? just kidding

@approxinfinity Thanks man!

@bskeet Holy cow the maple syrup here is truly inspiring! I did not know what syrup was until I moved here. There is also this soft serve ice cream up here, they call it Creemee and serve it in Creemee stands. Just, WOW. Literally the best stuff on earth. I have to run 4 miles a day just to keep slim!

@wissoxfan83 Thanks Wissox. You know, Bourbon street is on my list of to do things before I die. ;)

@approxinfinity HA! I never noticed that before. Baton Rouge = Red stick. Of course! lol

@Lulufulu85 Not to be a downer, my fellow Jayhawk brother, but Bourbon Street COULD be the last thing you do before you die.

It can be a dangerous place......so if you go, keep your eyes open, your billfold stashed and be careful!

@Lulufulu85 The way Bourbon St and the Quarter in general are going, hopefully when you visit it won't be your demise. Since I retired from the PO in Nawlins 3.5 years ago, you can count on 1 hand the number of times I've been back into that cesspool. But I love Bush, Louisiana. Three gas stations, a PO and one all you can eat seafood place.

@approxinfinity Love the new site...I think. Still getting used to it.

@wissoxfan83 What's up?

@nuleafjhawk You forgot one other important thing. At night in the Quarter, you turn a corner and don't see anybody, go back. Cause somebody will be down that street that you won't want to meet.

@brooksmd glad you're digging it. Good to see you!

As long as we talking Bourbon St and the Quarter, if this local Nawlin's jazz band don't get your foot tappin', you may already be dead. Abita Springs is a small town about 10 miles from me and they do 6 shows a year from the town hall. Most groups are local. Laissez les bons temps rouler!

http://abitaopry.org/html/AO2014-04.html ↗

@Lulufulu85 yeah, that's the other thing that Vermonters have that folks outside of New England don't realize -- really good dairy.

@nuleafjhawk not a fan of those Killer B's. ;-)

@nuleafjhawk
I avoid Bourbon St, but I do enjoy the quarter besides it.

@brooksmd Doing well! Hot enough for you?

@approxinfinity The red stick had something to do with the Indians and a tree on the Mississippi River where Southern Univ. now stands.

@Lulufulu85 if your company is hiring, I might like living in Vermont! Get on up to Lake Willoughby someday, one of America's prettiest lakes.

Baton Rouge- two Indian tribes kept having territory arguments so they put animal blood on a tree trunk to mark the boundary.

@wissoxfan83 Too hot. I am restricting my outdoors activity to 1.5 hrs/day which means it takes 2-3 days for weekly yard work. ;<)